page_title: Malala Yousafzai
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Malala Yousafzai / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Remise du Prix Sakharov à Malala Yousafzai Strasbourg 20 novembre 2013
context_page_description: Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Pakistani Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.
  Yousafzai was born to a Pashtun family in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work. In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Pakistani Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region.
context_section_description: Yousafzai has received the following national and international honours, listed by the date they were awarded:
  2011: International Children's Peace Prize (nominee)
  2011: National Youth Peace Prize
  January 2012: Anne Frank Award for Moral Courage
  October 2012: Sitara-e-Shujaat, Pakistan's third-highest civilian bravery award
  November 2012: Foreign Policy magazine top 100 global thinker
  December 2012: Time magazine Person of the Year shortlist for 2012
  November 2012: Mother Teresa Awards for Social Justice
  December 2012: Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action
  January 2013: Top Name in Annual Survey of Global English in 2012
  January 2013: Simone de Beauvoir Prize
  March 2013: Memminger Freiheitspreis 1525 (conferred on 7 December 2013 in Oxford)
  March 2013: Doughty Street Advocacy award of Index on Censorship
  March 2013: Fred and Anne Jarvis Award of the UK National Union of Teachers
  April 2013: Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, Global Trailblazer
  April 2013: One of Time's "100 Most Influential People in the World"
  May 2013: Premi Internacional Catalunya Award of Catalonia, May 2013
  June 2013: Annual Award for Development of the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID)
  June 2013: International Campaigner of the Year, 2013 Observer Ethical Awards
  August 2013: Tipperary International Peace Award for 2012, Ireland Tipperary Peace Convention
  2013: Portrait of Yousafzai by Jonathan Yeo displayed at National Portrait Gallery, London
  September 2013: Ambassador of Conscience Award from Amnesty International
  2013: International Children's Peace Prize
  2013: Clinton Global Citizen Awards from Clinton Foundation
  September 2013: Harvard Foundation's Peter Gomes Humanitarian Award from Harvard University
  2013: Anna Politkovskaya Award – Reach All Women in War
  2013: Reflections of Hope Award – Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum
  2013: Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – awarded by the European Parliament
  2013: Honorary Master of Arts degree awarded by the University of Edinburgh
  2013: Pride of Britain (October)
  2013: Glamour magazine Woman of the Year
  2013: GG2 Hammer Award at GG2 Leadership Awards (November)
  2013: International Prize for Equality and Non-Discrimination
  2014: Nominee for World Children's Prize also known as Children's Nobel Prize
  2014: Awarded Honorary Life Membership by the PSEU (Ireland)
  2014: Skoll Global Treasure Award
  2014: Honorary Doctor of Civil Law, University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  2014: 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, shared with Kailash Satyarthi
  2014: Philadelphia Liberty Medal
  2014: One of Time Magazine "The 25 Most Influential Teens of 2014"
  2014: Honorary Canadian citizenship
  2015: Asteroid 316201 Malala named in her honour.
  2015: The audio version of her book I am Malala wins Grammy Award for Best Children's Album. 
  2016: Honorary President of The Students' Union of the University of Sheffield
  2016: Order of the Smile
  2017: Youngest ever United Nations Messenger of Peace
  2017: Received honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa
  2017:  Ellis Island International Medal of Honor
  2017: Wonk of the Year 2017 from American University
  2017: Harper's Bazaar inducted Malala in the list of "150 of the most influential female leaders in the UK".
  2018: Advisor to Princess Zebunisa of Swat, Swat Relief Initiative Foundation, Princeton, New Jersey
  2018: Gleitsman Award from the Center for the Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School
  2019: For their first match of March 2019, the women of the United States women's national soccer team each wore a jersey with the name of a woman they were honoring on the back; Carli Lloyd chose the name of Yousafzai.
caption: Yousafzai receiving the Sakharov Prize at the European Parliament in November 2013
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